Was in the your Lady K thread, almost crying in the window: Dad, Dad, it looks like a Visimatic, but I've never seen one like that. Oh please take me in.

Had to leave for a sec. and when I came back this thread was visible and I gasped in gratitude. Thank you so much for doing this, Andrew, so very much!

Gonna guess that it's a 53 from the Agitator, and the the skirt is still half pants--ah, the men in charge ;-D-- And the control dial looks like Scott's 53.

But now I'm morphing into crazy Annie of Misery grilling Paul: Is that an agitate push button, or just style and design like Maytag's Automatic Washer non-button? Does the timer alone regulate agitation, and the motor runs all the time, simply stopping agitation the way it does on those rare timer Maytags? I don't see a "HOLD" setting.

That is one beautiful washer, Andy. I'd offer that the guy is really a closet wringer lover and that's why he won't sell, but if that were true, he'd probably have cleaned up her tub by now.

Maybe one of our historians can find some doctrine on what may very well be the first Visimatic.

Can't you get our people down there in to call the local washer police and force him to align the wringers, put the hose in its holster (for God's sake, he's got it hanging off the wringer--sacrilege!), and clean up the tub?

Or maybe we could get Obama to order a stealth mission and rescue the Visimatic.

Hey, I'd go down there with you and we could play cat burglars. Either way, that old gal has to be liberated. Her glory is wasted on this poser.

Thanks again for capturing real washer Americana. I LOVED IT.

read this the other night and laughed, then had a bed time fantasy where a bunch of us Ninjas break into Sears, and the next day's news story is : Six crazy washer men were seen leaving a trashed Sears Store with an ancient White R2D2-like robot, its mangler snapping and its aluminum hooked tail sparking along the pavement. Frightened police were unable to apprehend them.